All IHBC members will receive a personal email invitation from IHBC President Rebecca Thompson to attend the next virtual meeting of IHBC’s Council, from 4.30pm on Wednesday 8 October, with a newly revised programme featuring ‘Heritage Skills and the Conservation Professional’ alongside updates on Charter Petitions, planning, and more.
REGISTER HERE for Council on 8 October at 4.30pm
Rebecca Thompson IHBC President and chair of Council said: ‘All IHBC members, across every category, are welcome to Council, the IHBC’s inclusive advisory and training body where members can join in shaping our activities and plans.’
‘Please join us for free online CPD this time too, as the IHBC takes a closer look at the practice of the Conservation Professional in the context of Heritage Skills. We will also outline new plans to explore how we can best serve all our members following approval for a Charter application.’
‘As ever, there will be a chance to raise your own suggestions, queries & quandaries about IHBC and related Council matters and activities.’
IHBC Director Dr Sean O’Reilly said: ‘The IHBC’s case for a Charter was founded first on our unique structural approach to the regulation of members’ interdisciplinary practice as Conservation Professionals. Our case was underpinned by the rigour of our regulatory procedures, and reinforced by the strength of member and sector support for our work.’
‘We are of course delighted that the PCO accepted our suitability for a Charter, just as it acknowledged the wider public benefit inherent in both the IHBC’s own corporate priorities and the conservation work of our members.’
‘To mark that recognition, the next Council will introduce some select connections between our members’ work and, specifically, the Heritage Skills agenda.’
‘This will help all explore how the heritage skills resource is so important to us as Conservation Professionals. In part that is because, as a public benefit, it is important to everyone. In part too, it is a critical consideration across our members’ practice and aspirations.’
‘This Council will also outline some of the steps we are taking to make sure we reflect members needs and priorities over the coming months and years, Most especially, we want to ensure our Council has the support and infrastructure needed to take full advantage of the new opportunities our charter exploration has already secured.’
Council
IHBC’s Council is the IHBC’s inclusive advisory and training body, open to all IHBC members. All members can join in shaping our activities and plans, as we widen further the involvement of our members in the IHBC’s future.
See recent background on the approval to Petition for Charter HERE
See more background to the IHBC’s Petition for Charter Consultation HERE and on the IHBC NewsBlog on its submission HERE
For more details on IHBC’s Council including previous minutes and content see HERE.
